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Universiti Teknologi Petronas (Malaysia), and Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology (Korea) To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=846

Introduction

With the advent of few 3D consumer electronics products in 2009, the importance of three dimensional(3D) imaging technology has increased significantly. 3D imaging systems offer a richer experience for the consumers and they are expected to replace the traditional systems. In 2010, the leading consumer electronics manufacturers are introducing 3D TVs, 3D cameras, 3D printers and 3D computers. Some of them are Panasonic, Samsung, LG, Sony, Olympus, Canon, JVC, Sharp, Hitachi,HP and Acer. Their technology is currently based on stereoscopic vision and displays. However, as the 3D technology matures over time, autoseteroscopic vision and displays will replace the stereoscopic technology. It can rightly be said that the next decade is the decade for 3D imaging technology.

Objectives of the Book

This book will aim to provide the relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest esearch findings in 3D imaging. It will cover algorithms and technologies for 3D Imaging as well as discuss their various applications. It will provide the current status of the technologies and will discuss the future trends too.

Target Audience

This book will be an important resource and reference for professionals, scientists, researchers,academics and software engineers in image/video processing and computer vision. It is a multidisciplinary field, so in addition to electrical and electronics engineering, it will also be of interest to those involved in material science, robotics, astronomy, terrain mapping, mechanical engineering and medical sciences. It will be a potential resource for post graduate and senior undergraduate students too.

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before April 15, 2010, a 2‐3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified before May 15, 2010 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by September 1, 2010. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double‐blind review basis.

Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi‐global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2011.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is pleased to announce the selection of 118 outstanding early career scientists, mathematicians, and economists as Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows. The winners are faculty members at 56 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada who are conducting research at the frontiers of physics, chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics and neuroscience.

"The Sloan Research Fellowships support the work of exceptional young researchers early in their academic careers, and often at pivotal stages in their work," says Paul L. Joskow, President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. "I am proud of the Foundation's rich history in providing the resources and flexibility necessary for young researchers to enhance their scholarship, and I look forward to the future achievements of the 2010 Sloan Research Fellows."

The Sloan Research Fellowships have been awarded since 1955, initially in only three scientific fields: physics, chemistry, and mathematics. Since then, 38 Sloan Research Fellows have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in their fields; 57 have received the National Medal of Science; and 14 have been awarded the Fields Medal, the top honor in mathematics. Although Sloan Research Fellowships in economics began only in 1983, Sloan Fellows have subsequently accounted for 9 of the 14 winners of the John Bates Clark Medal, generally considered the most prestigious honor for young economists.

Grants of $50,000 for a two-year period are administered by each Fellow's institution. Once chosen, Sloan Research Fellows are free to pursue whatever lines of inquiry are of most interest to them, and they are permitted to employ Fellowship funds in a wide variety of ways to further their research aims. For a complete list of winners, visit:

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic, not-for-profit grantmaking institution that supports original research and broad-based education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and economic performance. For more information visit www.sloan.org.

Monday, March 15, 2010

Brown University, the Center for Computational Molecular Biology (CCMB), and the Department of Computer Science present the first in the John von Neumann Distinguished Lecture Series and the second in the symposium series "The Genome and the Computational Sciences: The Next Paradigms". This event will bring together influential entrepreneurs, leaders, and visionaries from academia and industry who will build the next paradigms in genomics and biotechnology. Each lecturer will present provocative, critical, and visionary talks on the state of the art in their academic and technological domains, and discuss the emerging paradigm changes made possible by their research and development work. All sessions will feature lively scientific dialogue and rigorous questioning by participants and audience members, including a post-lecture 'sweatbox' question-and-answer session. NSF and RECOMB travel awards are available for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Details about the events, which will be held from May 3-7, 2010, can be found at the Symposium webpage or email Lisa Manekofsky at ljm@cs.brown.edu

We look forward to your participation in our Symposium.

Sorin Istrail, Chair of the Symposium

Brown University CCMB Symposium, May 3-7, 2010 Co-organized with the Office of the President Co-organized with the Department of Computer Science Supported in part by the National Science Foundation

Sunday, March 14, 2010

International Conference in Bioinformatics (InCoB) 2010, Tokyo 26-28 September 2010

The Ninth International Conference on Bioinformatics, InCoB2010 (incob.apbionet.org or incob10.hgc.jp) will be held at International Conference Center, Waseda Campus, Waseda University, Tokyo on 26-28 September 2010.

This year, InCoB is organized in collaboration with the International Immunomics Society (IIMMS) and Chem-Bio Informatics Society (CBI). Day 3 is held in conjunction with special CBI sessions and the 3rd Conference of Basic and Clinical Immunogenomics and Immunomics (BCII).

ABBioNet was the first Asia-Pacific bioinformatics society to publish full papers in BMC Bioinformatics and in 2009, also in BMC Genomics. Supplements from previous conferences are below: 2009: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/10?issue=S3 2009: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/10?issue=S15 2008: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/9?issue=S12 2007: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/9?issue=S1 2006: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/7?issue=S5

After rigorous review by the Program Committee, authors will be asked to revise their manuscripts, prior to acceptance for publication and oral presentation at InCoB2010, for which at least one author must register.

At least one author of each selected poster/demonstration must register for InCoB2010. Furthermore, a single registration can cover only oral presentation and one poster presentation or two poster presentations. Posters are intended to convey a scientific result and are not meant to be used as advertisements for commercial software.

We invite abstracts on peer-reviewed journal papers that have accepted for publication or have been will be published on or after July 20, 2010 (please provide us email acceptance or online version). A small number of short oral or poster presentations is available and will be allocated at the discretion of scientific Program Committee. Decision criteria are the impact of the work on the field, the likelihood that the study would be of interest to the InCoB audience and the relevance of the research to bioinformatics and application to molecular and medical sciences.

InCoB2010 will feature shortly before and after the conference virtual e-learning sessions on new and emerging, cutting-edge topics. Authors for accepted tutorials agree to be available for feedback and potential questions fielded by e-mail in the period from Sep 20-Oct 19, 2010. For details see Submissions/Guidelines at conference website. Tutorial providers who wish to attend InCoB2010 are required to register.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUND AND COURSE AIMS AND DESCRIPTION High-throughput technologies in the life-sciences, from sequencing to microarrays, continue to produce exponentially increasing amounts of data and drive the needs and inspiration for new methods in the computational sciences to efficiently manage and mine these data and provide a better understanding of life from the molecular to the population level.

Bioinformatics, computational and systems biology, and the new -omics sciences, from genomics to metabolomics, all attempt to address these needs and better understand carbon-based computing systems, using silicon-based computing systems, with slightly different perspectives and emphases. Their success is intimately related to progress in mathematics and computer science, in particular in the areas of artificial intelligence, statistical machine learning, and optimization, in order to deal with very complex, high-dimensional, and noisy data.

The aim of the School is to introduce and expose the students to some of the contemporary problems and state-of-the-art solutions at the intersection of the life- and computational- sciences. For this purpose, the School is organized into four themes, at approximately four increasing spatial scales: Chemoinformatics, Proteomics, Genomics, and Systems Biology. Each theme will comprise lectures and invited talks, as well ample time for discussion, over a period of one and a half day. Additional minicourses to cover computational methods in machine learning and optimization will be given in the afternoons.

VENUE Erice is among the oldest cities of Sicily. The town sits on top of the homonymous mount Eryx, 750 m above sea level. It was the religious center of the ancient Elimi tribes, and is famous for its temple where the Phoenicians worshipped Astarte, the equivalent of Aphrodite or Venus for the ancient Greeks or Romans. Throughout its long contentious history, Erice has fallen to the hands of different tribes and empires, each leaving its own palpable mark on the city. Today, Erice is an enchanting wonderfully-preserved medieval town with the most breathtaking views of Sicily.

Monday, March 1, 2010

The Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods (DREAM) Project is soliciting proposals for the DREAM5 Challenges. We invite your input on the design of new challenges and the contribution pre-publication data sets to assess the efficacy of the systems biology modeling community. Contact the DREAM organizers through the DREAM Project website (http://wiki.c2b2.columbia.edu/dream/). URL: http://wiki.c2b2.columbia.edu/dream/